February 2012
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“Humanity I love you
because you are perpetually
putting the secret of life
in...”
– E.E Cummings
Libraryland: "Madmen" by Billy Collins →
libraryland:
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it out too early, they warn, your poem will fly away, and this time they are absolutely right. Take the night I mentioned to you I wanted to write about the madmen, as the newspapers so blithely call them, who…
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel
“He is beautiful and fascinating—like a book I read when I was a little girl but...”
– Maggie Stiefvater
“I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wondering if anything in my life had...”
– Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“I’m sorry,” he says, “for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time...”
– Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
“I want to spend the rest of my life looking for Treasure Island.”
– Carlos Fuentes
“And she loved a little boy very, very much—even more than she loved herself.”
– Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
“By the end of a week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped...”
– Play it As it Lays by Joan Didion
“often it is the only
thing
between you and
impossibility.
no drink,
no...”
– Charles Bukowski
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have...”
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
“This love is silent.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Time isn’t an orderly stream. Time isn’t a placid lake recording each of our...”
– How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Hassan Najmi, "The War"
sharingpoetry:
I seek a safe place For my mother’s scent And I hide the rose in my blood.
Silently My mother came to me in sleep. She kissed my forehead And placed salt under the pillow.
Electrocuted sky. And the ground is sprouting With the martyr’s blood. I see my mother’s face. I saw it on the train that passed today Loaded with the dead.
Translated by Khaled Mattawa
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